AT least seven people have reportedly been killed by an Israeli raid on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
The death toll was reported as six earlier on Tuesday and Al Jazeera later reported this had risen to seven and that 35 people were injured.
The Israelis claimed they were carrying out a counterterrorism operation but gave no further details.
A spokesperson for the Palestinian Authority’s security forces said that Israeli forces opened fire on civilians and security forces, resulting in injuries to several civilians and a number of security personnel, one of whom is in critical condition”.
Jenin governor Kamal Abu al-Rub told the AFP news agency there had been an “an invasion of the camp”.
He added: “It came quickly. Apache planes in the sky and Israeli military vehicles everywhere.”
It comes just days after the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza came into force and amid ongoing efforts by the Palestinian Authority to regain control of the city of Jenin and the refugee camp.
Last week, an Israeli air raid on the camp killed at least three Palestinians and injured more, according to Al-Jazeera.
In a post on Twitter/X, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Israeli military, the internal security service Shin Bet and the police had launched a "large-scale and significant military operation” in Jenin on Tuesday.
He added: “This is another step towards achieving the goal we set - strengthening security in Judea and Samaria.
“We are acting systematically and resolutely against the Iranian axis wherever it extends its arms – in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Judea and Samaria – and with our hands still outstretched.”
